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This post was originally published by Cassi Warner at chopecaptured.com

while strolling down Pear Tree Lane

I see these pear trees lining our road every.single.day, but it wasn’t until I slowed down and strolled alongside them that they became more than just beautiful landscaping. So much of life requires a slowing down and personally encountering. Do you have a minute for me to share a few thoughts with you?

Would you agree that life can cause our hope to clam up tight in a way that’s similar to those first buds on the trees? Maybe we are afraid to reach for the thing that feels far away. Maybe relationships barb our vulnerabilities just enough to keep us slowly shutting down. Maybe we pant in fear as circumstances slip from our control. Maybe we keep showing up to meet with a personal God, to repeatedly be met by disappointing silence. Maybe our prayers have gone unanswered for so long, we have balled up our hearts tight and have stopped believing Someone is for us.

On the day we decide our own emptiness is no longer an option, we throw caution to the wind and turn our faces to the Son. We bring the fragile remains of our hope and we offer them to Him because somewhere deep inside our closed up selves there’s a sliver of belief He is the answer.

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